WTF is this?!?

Whatever it is, it's expensive.

And I can't find a lens either.
 
It looks like the S-206 / "Zola" described in Princelle (2nd Ed p198) made 1970-85 for use in a briefcase for "clandestine" work, OK spying.
 
garythegit said:
lol! not exactly James Bond stuff is it :)
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In 1975 this was probably quite state-of-the-art. Indeed not quite James Bond but hey, he was not real anyway.

Did I just spoil someone's fantasy? :p
 
There is a lens where the viewfinder should be, you can see the infinity mark. The camera must have a sort of prism system inside. But what kind of purpose would require such a camera? It might have been a miltary purpose.
 
Perhaps it's a quantum camera. You aim and it'll take a picture of one of the gazillion possibilities of the outcome. -- Looks like it'll always be the same outcome, though! ;)

I can't figure it out either.

Maybe what looks like the "finder" is actually the taking lens.
 
RML said:
In 1975 this was probably quite state-of-the-art. Indeed not quite James Bond but hey, he was not real anyway.

Did I just spoil someone's fantasy? :p
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In Dr No Bond had a mobile phone that was small enough to fit in a briefcase!!
 
The lens is the round thing that looks like a lens, it must have two mirrors or prisms to reflect the image onto the film plane- a periscope. -Like a SLR would work if you turned the mirror around backwards, the slr could take a photo of your eye through the eyepiece.
With all the controls up top it would work well on one's chest shooting through the opening of a coat, or from within a book etc. The black wart may be a spring motor.
 
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